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Rock Battles, the Mineral Tournament

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A bracket-style competition where mineral, fossil, and gemstone collectors pit specimens against one another for community votes.

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Rock Battles turns a collection catalog into a tournament arena: entries are seeded into brackets, logged-in collectors vote head-to-head, and one specimen becomes champion. The site already lists an eight-entry Calcite Test Battle, giving this charmingly narrow idea a concrete operating stage.

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